Exquisite vs Inquisitor - What's the difference?
exquisite | inquisitor |
Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
(lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
; far-fetched; abstruse.
Of special beauty or rare excellence.
Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
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Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
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*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
(rare) Fop, dandy.
* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
*:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .
A person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly.
An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition.
As nouns the difference between exquisite and inquisitor
is that exquisite is (rare) fop, dandy while inquisitor is a person who inquires, especially searchingly or ruthlessly.As an adjective exquisite
is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.exquisite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* beautiful, delicate, discriminatingNoun
(en noun)- So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.